Hungry Ghost Festival

The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival and holiday celebrated by Chinese. In Chinese tradition, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar is called Ghost Day and the seventh month in general is regarded as the Ghost Month, in which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm.  Activities during the month would include preparing ritualistic food offerings, burning incense, and burning joss paper(ghost paper money), a papier-mâché form of material items such as clothes, gold and other fine goods for the visiting spirits of the ancestors.

香港の「孟蘭節」、さまよえる死者を鎮魂。街中でお供えをしたり紙幣を燃やす光景が見られ、通りや空き地、公園もかがり火に照らされて独特の雰囲気に包まれています。中国ではこの時期に地獄の門が開き、亡霊が出てくるという古い言い伝えがあり、死者への供え物がささげられると聞きました。